[Q] Touchpad support in CM9? - Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

As the title states. I am aware there are select games that utilize the touchpads in CM9 but most if not all GameLoft games have 0 support in the CM9 for touchpads. Can anyone tell me if there is any possible way of getting the touchpads to work flawlessly?

Hmm, someone could port the SEMC Framework from ICS Beta Rom to CM9 and make it work. Problem is, that the Framework won´t work without any modifications. And for that, you´ll need to know how SEMC Framework works-> Closed Sorce. Might be possible to do that, but it would be a mess because Trial and Error work.
Then there´s the problem with the Xperia Play controller drivers and the generic touchpad drivers. Not a huge problem, since a developed app for it could de/activate each driver.
And some games don´t even work on ICS because there´s no ICS compatible version for it. Maybe a CM7.2 based Rom might work.
However, I´m not a developer. Just my guess.

UNCUT88RAW said:
Hmm, someone could port the SEMC Framework from ICS Beta Rom to CM9 and make it work. Problem is, that the Framework won´t work without any modifications. And for that, you´ll need to know how SEMC Framework works-> Closed Sorce. Might be possible to do that, but it would be a mess because Trial and Error work.
Then there´s the problem with the Xperia Play controller drivers and the generic touchpad drivers. Not a huge problem, since a developed app for it could de/activate each driver.
And some games don´t even work on ICS because there´s no ICS compatible version for it. Maybe a CM7.2 based Rom might work.
However, I´m not a developer. Just my guess.
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Agree. I figure that it's only the proper touchpad drivers for CM9 can solve this problem,
the hard part is where to get the drivers
:silly:

Will it work if Sony gives official support to Cyanogenmod?

I guess that the games which don´t run on CM with hardware keys use the standard keyboard app and/or Xperia Play Launcher.
Why Xperia Play Launcher?
1) Deleted Cache of app-> Nova 3 didn´t work properly.
2) Some people flashed the new Xperia Play Launcher as zip through CWM-> Games which used the old launcher didn´t work with touchpads anymore.
Maybe someone could hack the apk´s to work without SEMC Framework. There are people who hack game apk´s, so why isn´t someone trying this?

some guy that made the darkics rom on the dev section has them working. He doesn't say what the rom is based off of but he says. "well i just took a look inside the framework and i noticed that the touchpads driver was not directed at the .so (linux driver) so i edited it and saved the framework, added the touchpad drivers and signed it and it worked!" My guess is it's from ics beta but it's worth looking into for aosp and aokp roms

How about game compatibility ? Does every game work? Would be great if a CM7.2 based rom geared towards speed (no bloat, Linaro optimations) would be made since high end games like GTA3 don´t perform well on ICS or some don´t want to start.

Guys,
We are working on a touchpad solution and getting very good results.
I think it's not perfect yet, but many gameloft games is working and recognizing touchpad . I tested BackStab and Six gun, some others tested Asphalt 6 and 7 and is working too. Some gameloft games is tested as well and with touchpad support.
The fix is not perfect yet. We need to do more tests, I need more logcats to track some errors that can occur to improve the fix compability, but I'm hope that in a very near future the touchpad on CM9 will get full support with this fix.
If anyone can help testing, I'll be very welcome!
here is the thread

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[Q][CM7] Problems with psx4droid?

I can't load up any roms with psx4droid since moving to CM7. I was reading to fix this issue in CM 6.2 you just had to flash the market fix for 6.2, as there was an issue in the build.prop.
I was wondering if anyone else has had this issue? Or if the same solution (flashing the 6.2 market fix) might even work?
I don't know enough to just start messing with files and whatnot, and don't want to break anything.
And yes, I have the right bios, and I have tried multiple roms.
Thanks!
Yes, I'm having the same problem with CM7 on my inspire4g (even tried a different kernel).
Also identical problem with snesoid.
Same here,and add to that;the game I got from gameloft are giving me trouble as well.....
sent from a terminal, in the NIGHTLANDS.........
psx4droid is pretty much a dead project. ZodTTD (of Zodiac emulators fame) put together this emu after many requests from devoted former palm users. He is focusing all his efforts on iPhone and OpenPandora ports so I wouldn't expect a GB compatible version of psx4droid in the future.
psx4droid v2 1.1.0 works for me. All earlier versions don't work. the psx4droid lite does work on GB
the psx4droid lite does work on GB
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Awesome, yeah that was the issue haha, I got the paid v2 version and it worked fine! Sweet!
So I have an HTV EVO 4G with CM7 (2.3) and no versions of psx4droid will run Metal Gear Solid. Any ideas?
PSx4Droid works for me [CM7 2.3.4] Though make sure you have the latest version. Also not all games are compatible; another emulator worth trying is fpse; I have both installed, and some games work on one that doesn't the other. EX: FF Tactics doesn't like to run on psx, but runs fine on fpse.

Yongzh's emulators lag in ICS

Hello. Is anyone else having issues with Yongzh's emulators (snesoid, gameboid...) when running them in ICS?
I get slightly poor performance and sound issues that don't manifest themselves when using Gingerbread. The same happens in Android 4.0 and 4.0.4. I've tried different ROMs too and I even tried overclocking the CPU to 1.5 GHz. Nothing helps.
I'm looking either for a fix or for some nice alternatives (some other emulators work nicely, but they're not as good).
What are you using since switching to ICS?
No kidding. That's one of the reasons the ICS update was dropped, it killed performance.
So if I read this post correctly, I guess its answering my other thread.. that I guess Yongzh's emulators are no good anymore and we should buy a new emulator off the market?
Mysticales said:
So if I read this post correctly, I guess its answering my other thread.. that I guess Yongzh's emulators are no good anymore and we should buy a new emulator off the market?
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I don't know about not being good, they're still my favorite, but they perform badly in ICS for some reason and they're actually one of the main reasons I can't decide whether I want ICS or GB.
Glad I came across this thread tho.. didnt even know they had issues in ICS.. Maybe I will have to buy a newer version emulator, unless anyone knows if he is still updating for ics on slideme wasnt it?
Hey, I'd like to know if this is ROM specific. Perhaps the emulators might work smoothly in some ROMs that I haven't tried. Please post your experiences. I'd mostly like to hear about CM9 (I haven't tried it yet).
I tried Tiger Arcade and Tiger Genesis and they both work like a charm in ICS. Consider this emulators as an option.
http://www.apps.tigerplay.info
Fußbodenheizung said:
Hello. Is anyone else having issues with Yongzh's emulators (snesoid, gameboid...) when running them in ICS?
I get slightly poor performance and sound issues that don't manifest themselves when using Gingerbread. The same happens in Android 4.0 and 4.0.4. I've tried different ROMs too and I even tried overclocking the CPU to 1.5 GHz. Nothing helps.
I'm looking either for a fix or for some nice alternatives (some other emulators work nicely, but they're not as good).
What are you using since switching to ICS?
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Hey mate
that's easy , just use MD.emu , BGA.emu ... all of them are running smoothly on ICS .

anyone intrested in another cm9,cm10 or ics aosp built

title says it all
extremetempz said:
title says it all
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Id be interested in cm10 as long as its possible to.port to cdma
Sent from my r800x using xda developers app
Im looking for any super stable AOSP Rom, CM10 Would be great, If it had no bugs and if it was smooth and if it had full working touchpads.
Super stable AOSP CM10 Would be Awesome, with no bugs was smooth and had full working touchpads
CyberScopes said:
Im looking for any super stable AOSP Rom, CM10 Would be great, If it had no bugs and if it was smooth and if it had full working touchpads.
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Lotta if. I'd be interested in cm10 too. But with the same "if" like cyberscopes.
Regards,
Sdojoin
Yep, but would most likely not be possible
Yeah, but i think this's what this thread is for. To know & to ask us what we want. If not, then just close this thread.
Regards,
Sdojoin
Cm 10 forsure
Slimed, debloated, working touchpads, video, camera and panorama lol
Cdma/gsm.
Is that to much to ask lol
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Yeah, but i think this's what this thread is for. To know & to ask us what we want. If not, then just close this thread.
Regards,
Sdojoin
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This thread should actually be put into general... not into Q&A...
I've recently started building/using CM10 following these instructions: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Build_for_zeus
(only instead of ics on the repo init line, I used jellybean)
I'm assuming that should be roughly equivalent to what the FXP team produces (considering they're the ones that submit the source to CM). It seems to work fine for me.
I don't honestly use my camera very much, but what is wrong with it? I seem to be able to take pictures and they seem to be the right resolution (though I haven't done any quality comparisons) I haven't actually tried video or panorama.
I'm mainly interested in trying to add some tweaks, some of which may be Xperia Play-specific, and CM seemed like the best developer/community open source ROM to work with (though if someone else has other suggestions let me know)
The touchpads actually work, though not in the way that games expect them to is the problem - so it's really more a matter of game compatibility than functionality (and some of the others have made great strides in this area, but still not compatible with all games). I'd honestly like to try to get the Xperia Play's gamepad to be exposed to applications the same way a Bluetooth HID controller would be - I honestly think that needs to be the future - games shouldn't be written for Xperia Play or MOGA or whatever special controllers people come up with, just write it for HID controllers.
I've also thought about custom unlock methods, one of which could be entering codes on your gamepad to unlock.
A more ambitious project unless I can actually get the Android Transporter's guys' attention would be hardware accelerated Wifi screen-mirroring, which is what the Android Transporter guys did to stream from phone to phone or phone to tablet or phone to raspberry pi (they've open-sourced their raspberry pi receiver and as I understand it have plans to open source the android platform mods to be able to screencast). Basically the idea is to pull composited images from the surfaceflinger and put them through the hardware encoder (similar to what the camera does for encoding video), and stream them over Wifi according to RFC standards.
What else is wrong with CM10 that ya'll would like to see fixed? Any new feature ideas?
I'm not promising to implement anything though, I haven't been able to devote much time to android development, but thought I'd go ahead and try to share and inspire ideas and hopefully I'll be able to find more time to contribute soon.
~Troop
Not really in any of those options if gaming is not as fast as in gingerbread.
Yes, I want something like yours ExtremeRom but with better performace. But I know that ICS is crap for gaming so it's just a dream

What is the best Doom wad emulator for play?

Please help me, since about a year ago i got the play. The first thing i looked for was a wad player since i love doom. I tried prboom and doomgles and they both sucked. Pr boom doesn't support the plays controller and doomgles is too f*king dark (can't see a darn thing) also can't 'reconfigure the controlers to suite and game datas simply won't download, so i'm stuck with doom demo on it.
So I am basically here to ask for a recommended doom wad player/emulator for my play out of desperation. I'm certain someone has a solution. I'm so disappointed with all these android doom ports
FPse?
Sent from my R800x using xda app-developers app
:/ well i decide to settle with doomgles. i fixed the darkness, got the data to finally download manually, also fixed a problem where objects were disapparing. Still cant seem to get custom wads to work. but for now doomgles would have to do since it seems to be the best for gingerbread.
If thinking about using an ICS rom or above Doom Touch can be mapped to hardware and out of all the ports i think its the most clean and fast choice you can choose.
Doom Touch - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beloko.doom&hl=en
Other ports available on the market for Gingerbread (Can't say if any good as not tested)
DoDoom - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bakateam.andoom
PrDoom - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bestapp.prboomdoom
Retroarch Multi Emulator (Doom PrDoom Engine) - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.retroarch
There are a few non market ports which have either been taken down by Google (When Google had a moan and took down ports and emulators like the iods) or never made it to market in the first place. If find any in my collection i will edit my post.
hope this helps
poo-tang said:
If thinking about using an ICS rom or above Doom Touch can be mapped to hardware and out of all the ports i think its the most clean and fast choice you can choose.
Doom Touch - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beloko.doom&hl=en
Other ports available on the market for Gingerbread (Can't say if any good as not tested)
DoDoom - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bakateam.andoom
PrDoom - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bestapp.prboomdoom
Retroarch Multi Emulator (Doom PrDoom Engine) - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.retroarch
There are a few non market ports which have either been taken down by Google (When Google had a moan and took down ports and emulators like the iods) or never made it to market in the first place. If find any in my collection i will edit my post.
hope this helps
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Thank you very much. I wish i could try doom touch, but alas I'm on Ginger Bread.
Never tried Dodoom, so i will give it a werl.
I sent an email to the Doom touch developer asking him:
"I really love the look of your Prboom Plus port and was wondering if you had any plans to support Ginger Bread devices like the xperia play in the future."
He replied by saying:
"Hi,
Probably not to be honest, GB does not natively support gamepads, and a lot of GB devices would struggle to play the apps.
I may do a special release for older versions of Android after I finish my other projects.
Best Regards,
Beloko"
I really wish for an awesome wad emulator like his on GB. The xperia play is starting to show it's age.

[Q] Help setting up a brand new Xperia Play for my daughters birthday pls :)

My daughter (13) being a playstation fan....saw the "playstation phone" somewhere and had a fit for it. I had to look up what she was talking about and strangely....I had never seen or heard of the Xperia Play. I found an unopened brand new Verizon (r800x) and bought it for her. Her birthday is next month and I am wanting to get this thing set up for her. I didnt realize that Sony had stopped support for this phone...so I cant even update from the stock android version This will be her first phone, and I think she will absolutely love it....but I need some help getting it updated please.
I have the phone set up and activated on Page Plus. I have read and read and read on the different roms and kernels etc. and TBH...it is all greek to me lol. I have never rooted a phone...used a custom rom or kernel etc. So I am hoping that some of you awesome peeps could help me out a little and help put a huge smile on my little girls face .
I noticed that several roms overclock the processor and up the screen res to 720p. That would be awesome to have since she will game the crap out of it lol. Of course I want all of the functions of the slide out controller to work...like the touch sensors etc. and also the wifi, camera etc. because well...shes a teenager. I also have Themer on my S3 and she LOVES messing with it and I am not sure if its possible for it to work on the Play even with a custom rom etc.
If any kind soul would mind telling me which rom etc would be the best to use for this, and also help me with getting it all installed and set up etc. I would GREATLY appreciate it!! Thanks so much!
HBD to your daughter
Hi, it's amazing, our loved xplay will never die .
First of all, if you have your bootloader unlocked then you are ready to choose (see point #2) then flash a rom (see point #3), if not then give a look to THIS for web unlocking for R800x (may work) or THIS it should work for R800x too but roms must be for R800x, you can search on each rom post to see if that rom are compatible.
Lets think about gaming and stuff, if you think your daughter will use it to play heavy games instead social stuff and multitask is not a problem then GingerBread is the best option, if you think she will be a casual gamer and will want multitask and other cool "new" stuff then ICS, Jellybean is not an option since you said that you want touchpads and jellybean has no functional touchpads.
In both GB and ICS you will able to record on 720p and Overclock your device and i recommend to O.C up to 1.6GHz with a Lupus Kernel.
Now, i have tested a several roms and kernels and i'll list those which i think are the best.
GINGER BREAD
Gin2KitKat very good UI, good for gaming and social
AuroraPlay simple UI, very good for gaming (the best i think)
ICE CREAM SANDWICH
GAMING HYBRID simple UI, light and good for gaming
ICS Original original Sony Ericsson UI, good for gaming and social
Xperia Play ZXperia Z UI(the best i think), very good for gaming and social
As i said before, you must see if the rom is compatible for R800x since almost all of them are for R800i.
As a matter in fact i'm using Xperia Play Z with DoomKernel at 1.6GHz and i think its the best of the best :laugh:
Hope i was helpful, i'm sorry for my bad english. Good luck. :fingers-crossed:
Thanks SO much for your help She will game of course but I think the ICS would suit her better. After writing this...i read some more....and some more lol....anyway I found the sony unlocking website...and unfortunately I dont have the "bootloader status" option so it says I cant unlock it
I would love to set it up exactly like yours is, since it seems you really like it . Is there a workaround for the bootloader problem?
Thanks again for your help!
Well...I got the bootloader unlocked
I wanted to use the Xperia Play Z rom that you mentioned...but it doesnt seem to be a r800x rom Can anybody recommend a ICS rom and kernel for the r800x please?
Try Hybrid
GAMING HYBRID has a CDMA (r800x) version :highfive:.
Actually you can flash any R800i ICS ROM but you will not have network but wifi, just to try maybe .
May you should pm Markphyton to know if the Xperia Play Z rom will be ported ro r800x in near future, meanwhile try Hybrid Gaming its UI is not as ugly as you may think, is stable and light, give it a chance.
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Well...I got the bootloader unlocked
I wanted to use the Xperia Play Z rom that you mentioned...but it doesnt seem to be a r800x rom Can anybody recommend a ICS rom and kernel for the r800x please?
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if r800x is not the only option that would work in you area.. then you really made a mistake by buying the x version.,. should have bought the r800i.
Want Controller in Minecraft
I am setting up an Xperia Play for my daughter as well, and two more for my sons, only we have the CDMA version. So far I have tried CyanogenMod 9.1 and Xperia Play Z. In both of them, the controller functionality is just junk in Minecraft. Both Softsticks operate the same functions as the D-Pad on the left, leaving no good way to get around without constantly touching the screen. Additionally, on both ROMs, the only way I could get the option to play worlds locally was to copy them over from other devices, only then did the New and Edit buttons show up, and they still go missing most of the time.
So my question: Would anyone like to give an example of a specific custom ROM which gives them good controller performance in Minecraft? I would prefer Android 4.0 or better so I could recover from the kids changing the PIN(also, using PINs) to something they don't remember, and using phone location from within the Play store, otherwise I might have stuck with Stock in the first place.
Update: After trying Gaming Hybrid, I am mystified as to how it made the recommended list at all, and... I'll stop right there because that's the most positive thing I have to say about it. ICS Original gave me no controller love in Minecraft either, but even though it tried to set default language to Chinese it was at least stable during its four-minute eval.

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